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Title: Is Racial Salary Discrimination Disappearing in the NBA? Evidence from Data during 19852015

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Publication Year: 2016

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Abstract: This study re-examines racial salary discrimination of National Basketball Association players by constructing a long unbalanced panel covering the 19851986 to 20152016 seasons. Contrary to the results of previous studies, we find that non-white players are paid equally to white players with similar characteristics in the 1980s and 1990s, but that white players started to be paid 20 percent more than non-white players in the last 10 years. Our results are robust in all specification checks such as the quantile regressions, controlling the sample selection and controlling different contract types. Non-parametrically estimated density of the counter-factual salary of non-white players confirms our results. In addition, we find that neither the employers preference nor income gap of white and black fans explain this increasing salary gap.

Url: http://www.econ.tsukuba.ac.jp/RePEc/2016-001.pdf

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Authors: Naito, Hisahiro; Takagi, Yu

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Publication Number: 2016-001

Institution: University of Tsukuba

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Publisher Location: Tsukuba, Ibaraki Japan

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Topics: Labor Force and Occupational Structure, Other, Race and Ethnicity

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